that not only create a boatload of jobs they also reduce our demand for foreign oil and they make our environment cleaner all good outcomes from an investment. money put toward infrastructure like new roads bridges high speed rail systems these are all investments that will make it cheaper and easier for businesses to ship goods across the country or for americans to travel on vacation money put into health care research is an investment that will cut down on the costs the diseases inflict on our economy and as a bonus gives us a healthier more productive workforce even money put towards social welfare programs like food stamps and unemployment benefits turns out to be investments movies not some left wing think tank movies did research in on this and found that for every dollar invested in expanding the food stamp program you cut to me generates an additional dollars seventy three and for every dollar invested in unemployment benefits the the economy generates an additional dollars sixty four that's a pretty good return on investment president obama often uses the word investment in referring to